REMPLOY - shortsighted government action?

Though I have yet to confirm the figures, I am sure that the shutting off of funding for the Remploy job creation scheme for the disabled will have a significant impact on people with a visual impairment. Though in times of recession, where there is a need to review government spending (and no, I am not going to go on about the ridiculous waste of some government spending, the lack of focused subsidy to public services, the waste of money on the poorly disguised restructuring and partial privatisation of the NHS or the deference shown to the obscene profiteering by the privatised companies in charge of many of our essential transport and infrastructure services), a scheme which provided much needed employment opportunity to those with a disability might seem a somewhat callous target. However, it cannot be denied that some of the employment was for employment sake and not resulting in any useable outcome or profit other than for the individual undertaking the job. Jobs are hard enough to find it would seem so perhaps this is the only option - funded or subsidised employment.